3 December 2020 Lena Dunham There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I’m careful. I don’t even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I’ve only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It’s just a genre that’s very human.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham It’s funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne’s that’s a really kind of creative hot bed.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham If you’re writing, you’re starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it’s for other people – that comes in later.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I’d love to write something for a male protagonist. That’s sort of the next frontier for me. I think it’d be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham My uncle’s a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, ‘That’s cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.’
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I mean, I – it’s so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I’ve been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I’m ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me… and my father is a decidedly private person.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I feel like you don’t know if someone’s equipped for a romantic relationship until they’re out of their twenties.
3 December 2020 Lena Dunham I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
